Fancies for the Fair in Winter Millinery Styles
The piece highlights warm winter millinery trends featuring beaver astrakhan Persian lamb and seal skin furs used for hats and muffs. Angola felts with furred crowns and wide brims are favored with velvet trims. Birds decor innovates hats with bird-home like arrangements and new color and form explorations in Paris and New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Angola
Paris
Audobon Society
Ora Scaney
Fashion Notes From The Season's Early Millinery Trends
The piece surveys hats with seven inch brims unlikely before spring, velvet fabrics dotted with cut steel nail heads, and turbans in gray with silver dots trimmed by gray lamb and weasel. It describes bird motifs in gold with brilliants, a long gola wire, and a theater box office scene illustrating ticket lines and seating etiquette. It notes women anglers toward girdles and hip wrapping fashions as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
New York World
Fashion in Rainproof Gowns and Paris Millinery Trends
A long survey of waterproof fabric fashion, millinery and dress fittings. It notes rubber gossamer cloth, capotes, and toques as rainwear innovations, with Parisian milliner Ora Seaney praising dainty, practical headpieces. It also covers gowns, gloves, and accessories, plus a New York theater costume detail and Persian court notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goodyear
Boston
Ora Seaney
New York
Queen of Sheba and Visions of Loveliness In Silks
Washington society opens a luxury season with January events. Dinners and receptions flood the calendar as wealthy women showcase Paris wardrobes and vast diamonds at the White House. Mrs. Harrison favors subdued gowns, while Mrs. Morton displays simple elegance and major jewels during public ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washirerox
Washington
Paris
White House
Morton
Leiter
Leland Stanford
Stockbridge
Hitt
John Hay
John D. Langhorne
Hearst
Richard Townsend
Wanamaker
Romero
Warder
Blaine
Esterhazy
Eugene
Harrison
Mrs. Noble
Golconda
Indies
Washington society jewels and gowns dazzle in season
The article surveys high society Washington women and their jewelry and gowns. It highlights Madam Romero's elegant state appearances, emerald earrings with royal provenance, Mrs. Logan and Mrs. Stanford's ornate pieces, Colonel Langhorne's diamond necklace, and other notable adornments worn at pivotal social events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madam Romero
Cornelia
Washington
John D. Langhorne
Khedive
Sherman
Thackara
Aprons for Maids Feature Practical Styles and Popular Names
A new apron trend praises the waning of "Sweet Brier" with sturdy linen or Holland fabrics. Designs include crotway bands, fancy zephyrs, and roomy pockets plus a large bib with a collar. Another favored style is the "Sweet Lavender" with long sleeves and extended sides for full coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland
Order of the Magi Comes to Chicago Promoting Thirteenth Power
The Thinker editor narrates a Chicago occult group led by a high priest who offers lectures on Astral Magnetism Zodiacal Differentiation and Infinity. The piece contrasts Chicago’s reception with Pittsburgh and notes predictions and the spread of spiritualist practices to seek millennium outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spirit Land
The
Magi
Chicago
Order of the Magi
Libra
Pittsburg
Pittsbung
Pillsburg
Brother McAleese
Patel
Tom
Dean Swift
Joe Smith
Smith
Heaven
Nashville
Egypt
Columbus
Faces of the Fair and Makeup Secrets of Ladies
A column discusses makeup for women in bright theater lights. It describes powders, lotions, perfumed waters, brilliantine on brows, and a historical note on cosmetics. It warns against overuse and emphasizes natural looking beauty and subtle hints from past beauty practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Borrowed chic evening dress described with beadwork
A courtly description of a borrowed theatre dress features light blue cloth and red tulle embroidery with jet and russet beads. Sleeves have jet clusters, and the skirt shows embroidered tulle with a hive feather border and a train of pieces.
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Cornucopia
Gether
Vienna
Ear
Orav
Italy
Victoria
Prince Adolph of
Bob Cook
Yale
Louis M. Megargee
Philadelphia Inquirer
Gramercy Square
Samuel J. Tilden
Cook
Horace Porter
Teller
Pullman Parlor Car Company
Porter
Minerva
Prema
Yale Oarsmannes Paphictanpeagn
Idaho
Shah
Persia
Figaro
Anizeh Dooulet
Nasr-ed-Din
Aniseh Vooulet
Lyons
New York Evening Post
Meg
Philadelphia Times
Sheba
Batina
AY Washington
Mrs. Morton
Noble's
de Medici
Catherine II
Russia
Siberia
John A. Logan
Pullman
Carnegie
Gladstone
General Logan
Logan
Rome
California
Leland. Stanford
Stanford
Europe
Colonel Langhorne
Riggs’ Bank
Don Cameron
Cameron
Miss Grempy
Order OF the Mags
Bessie Bramble’s
Mercury
Cascarilla
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Rao
Epicurus
Cleopatra
Medici
Martin Gillet & CO
Star Exchange Place
Beleinneee Es
Madame A
Mme. A
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